Kristin Scott Thomas
Acting • Born 1960-05-24
Biography
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996). Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Her work includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), and Tell No One (2007). She won the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (2008). Her other films include Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), and Tomb Raider (2018). On television, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest appearance in the second season of the comedy series Fleabag (2019), and has starred in the Apple TV+ spy series Slow Horses since 2022. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005. Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm 893 Squadron, who died in a flying accident on a de Havilland Sea Vixen when Kristin was aged five. She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas. She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod), the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who also died in a flying accident whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January 1972. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset. On leaving school in 1978, she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store. She began training to become a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, enrolling on a BEd in Speech and Drama. During her time at the school, she requested to switch degree courses to acting but was refused. After a year at Central, speaking French fluently, she decided to move to Paris to work as an au pair,[2] and studied acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT). When she was 25, she was cast as Mary Sharon in the film Under the Cherry Moon (1986). ... Source: Article "Kristin Scott Thomas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
114 credits
The English Patient
Movie • 1996
Katharine Clifton
Mission: Impossible
Movie • 1996
Sarah Davies
The Horse Whisperer
Movie • 1998
Annie MacLean
The Revengers' Comedies
Movie • 1998
Imogen Staxton-Billing
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Movie • 1994
Fiona
The Golden Compass
Movie • 2007
Stelmania (voice)
Agent trouble
Movie • 1987
Julie
Man to Man
Movie • 2005
Elena Van Den Ende
Bitter Moon
Movie • 1992
Fiona
Tell No One
Movie • 2006
Hélène Perkins, Anne's companion
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Movie • 2009
Alette Naylor
Gosford Park
Movie • 2001
Sylvia McCordle
The Valet
Movie • 2006
Christine Levasseur
Arsène Lupin
Movie • 2004
Joséphine
Life as a House
Movie • 2001
Robin Kimball
Richard III
Movie • 1995
Lady Anne
Angels and Insects
Movie • 1995
Matty Crompton
I've Loved You So Long
Movie • 2008
Juliette
The Other Boleyn Girl
Movie • 2008
Lady Elizabeth Boleyn
Nowhere Boy
Movie • 2009
Mimi Smith
Random Hearts
Movie • 1999
Kay Chandler
Under the Cherry Moon
Movie • 1986
Mary Sharon
The Walker
Movie • 2007
Lynn Lockner
Keeping Mum
Movie • 2005
Gloria Goodfellow
2 Alone in Paris
Movie • 2008
L'antiquaire
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Movie • 2008
Ann Ferguson
Lost and Found in Paris
Movie
Madame Feuillate
The Monkey Prince
Movie • 2003
Narrator
Leaving
Movie • 2009
Suzanne
A Handful of Dust
Movie • 1988
Brenda Last
Easy Virtue
Movie • 2008
Mrs. Whittaker
Chromophobia
Movie • 2006
Iona Aylesbury
Small Cuts
Movie • 2003
Béatrice
Up at the Villa
Movie • 2000
Mary Panton
An Unforgettable Summer
Movie • 1994
Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Movie • 2012
Patricia Maxwell
The Woman in the Fifth
Movie • 2011
Margit
Love Crime
Movie • 2010
Christine Rivière
Sarah's Key
Movie • 2010
Julia Jarmond
In Your Hands
Movie • 2011
Anna
The Pompatus of Love
Movie • 1996
Caroline
In the Eyes of the World
Movie • 1991
L'institutrice
Bel Ami
Movie • 2012
Virginie Walters
Only God Forgives
Movie • 2013
Crystal
The Confessional
Movie • 1995
Assistant to Hitchcock
In the House
Movie • 2012
Jeanne
The Tenth Man
Movie • 1988
Therese Mangeot
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Movie • 1990
Leda St Gabriel
The Invisible Woman
Movie • 2013
Catherine Ternan
Play
Movie • 2001
1st Woman
Looking for Hortense
Movie • 2012
Iva
Two Tickets to Greece
Movie • 2023
Bijou
Framed
Movie • 1990
Kate
Les Milles
Movie • 1995
Mary-Jane Cooper
Uncontrollable Circumstances
Movie • 1989
Katia
Charly
Movie • 1985
Marie
The Bachelor
Movie • 1990
Sabine Schleheim
The Governor's Party
Movie • 1990
Marie Forestier
Headstrong
Movie • 1989
Clara
Lounge Chair
Movie • 1988
Marie
Valentino! I love you
Movie • 1991
Plaisir d'offrir
Movie • 1995
Claire
Mayday
Movie • 1995
Martine
Souvenir
Movie • 1996
Ann
Love & Confusions
Movie • 1997
Sarah
Weep No More, My Lady
Movie • 1992
Elisabeth
Before the Winter Chill
Movie • 2013
Lucie
My Mother's Wedding
Movie • 2025
Diana
Suite Française
Movie • 2015
Madame Angellier
My Old Lady
Movie • 2014
Chloé Girard
Three Sisters
Movie • 2003
Masha
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Movie • 2015
Self
Darkest Hour
Movie • 2017
Clemmie
The Party
Movie • 2017
Janet
The Endless Game
Movie • 1989
Caroline
Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca's Footsteps
Movie • 2017
Self / Narrator (voice)
Paramour
Movie
Susanne Klatten
In Her Hands
Movie • 2018
The Countess
Tomb Raider
Movie • 2018
Ana Miller
Cela s'appelle l'amour
Movie • 1989
Juliette
Boucherie fine
Movie • 1987
Cashier 3
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
Movie • 2019
Fiona
Rebecca
Movie • 2020
Mrs. Danvers
Military Wives
Movie • 2020
Kate
Tell No One: The B-Side
Movie • 2007
Self
Final Set
Movie • 2021
Judith Edison
The Making of Gosford Park
Movie • 2002
Self
Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave
Movie • 2017
Eleanor
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Camembert
Movie • 2026
Immortelle
Movie
Top Gear
TV • 2002
Self
Belle Époque
TV • 1995
Alice Avellano
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Therese
Gulliver's Travels
TV • 1996
Immortal Gatekeeper
The Directors
TV • 1999
Self
Natural World
TV • 1983
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Mistral's Daughter
TV • 1984
Nancy
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
TV • 2020
Celia
D-Day Sacrifice
TV • 2014
Kay Summersby (voice)
Fleabag
TV • 2016
Belinda
Body & Soul
TV • 1993
Sister Gabriel / Anna
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Cérémonie des César
TV • 1976
Self - President
My Grandparents' War
TV • 2019
Self
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Slow Horses
TV • 2022
Diana Taverner
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self - Guest
Titmuss Regained
TV • 1991
Jenny
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
The Endless Game
TV • 1989
Caroline
Elle Style Awards
TV • 1997
Self - Winner
Absolutely Fabulous
TV • 1992
Plum Berkeley